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*for interesting and unusual Cards an dGifts.Il 113 BROCK ST. S: WHITBY LAFONTAINE TRADING POST salutes our Canadian Artists bygivin their 20%VOPA oi teircollection purchase. SaluteCanda's 1251h Ceban 12n 421 Dundas St.* E. Whitby *4668-886* 6 WhitbyrFrce Press - Canada 125 Histuory o By BrinWîne TIOwno htbytAcIvilst Downtown Whitby was established at the intersect ion of two major roade, Kingston Rd. (now Hwy 2 Dundas St.) and Centre Rd. (now Brock St.), leading J'om Whitby Harbour north'te Orillia. The first settiement, was established by Peter Perry, Whitby's founder, in 1836. Perry built'his home and the Red Store on the corner where, the Bank of Commerce now stands, and the business commumty that grew around this, corner was called '.Perry's Corners.! Peter Perry brought businesses to Perzy's Corners fromn the Port Whitby area and Hamer's Corners at Dundas and Anderson streets, so that by the time of bis death in 1851, Péeys Corners was the business centre of Whitby. e oldest building stili standing in downtown Whitby is the Corner Store, which was built. as the Commercial (and later the Queen's) Hotel about 1842. This fraine hotel was bricked over in 1905. Several buildings from the 1850s are located on the north. aide of Dundas St., between Brock and Byron streets. The stores on the, east side of Brock St., from Dundas te Coborne streets, were built from 1878 te 1883, following the great fire o? Oct. 16, 1877 that destroyed the entire block. The stores on the .west side of Brock St., from Donald's Travel te My Dadas Store date from 1878. The Royal Hotelwasý designedby thefanious Toronte architect Hlenry Langley ii 1872tor laceethe first Royal Hotel that burned ,downr. The McMi an Block with its yellow brick front Where Shorty'à and Go Natura now are, dates from 1864. khe Lafontaine Trading Post-was built in' 1867-68 as the Ontario.Bank. North of the Royal Hotel is the Old Whitby Chroniclè e ce" built in 1862 and designated under the Ontario Jieri-ta'ge Act. Another designated building is. the- Carnegie iàbrary at Byron and Dundas streets, bilt in 1913,' and now occupied by Murray Miskin's law office.1. Brock and Dundas streets were, for many years, dirt roads, covered with gravel in the muddy seasons. hese streets were paved for the first time in 1921. The Hon. F.C. Biggs, Ontario Minister of Highways, offiially opened the pavement at the end of September 1921. Prom 1895 te 1949, the downtown merchants paid a special tax te, hire a night watchman te patrol the business section. Prom 1921,,te 1949, the night watchman was John Thomas. In the 18509 and 1860s when the grain trade was boomning at Port Whitby, tmeswagons loaded with grain would stretch aàlong Brock St. from the harbour te Bossland Rd. during the harvesting season. There were as many as ten hotels in downtown Whitby at that time, te, accommodate these ýfariners and travellers passing through the Town. For many years 910* te 1959, the Whitby Post Offioe, a stone building -i~ a dlock tower, stood at the corner of Brock and Dundas srets.The Bank of Montreal isnow at this location.- Today, -Downtown Whitby combines heritage buildings with specialty shoping in a pleasant mixture of old and new, in a tradition -ating back more than 150 yeurs.